Mount Vernon recently planted an industrial cultivar of hemp to expand its interpretation of George Washington’s role as an enterprising farmer. Under the 2015 Industrial Hemp Law enacted by the Virginia General Assembly and working with the Dr. Michael Timko with UVA’s industrial hemp research program, Dean Norton planted industrial hemp seeds across a 1,000-square-foot area.
A large European study recently published in the journal Lancet says the heart-healthy benefits from moderate drinking are slight, while the risk of stroke and other fatal heart conditions are significant. Dr. Christopher Holstege, chief of UVA’s Division of Medical Toxicology, applauds the study’s scale, saying, “It gives us a lot to look at and discuss.”
Two and half years ago, Bradford and Bryan Manning had separated while shopping at Bloomingdale’s in New York City, only to meet back up having bought the same exact shirt. Like so many blind people, they’d let their fingers do the shopping and had picked out the softest, most comfy long-sleeve crewnecks they could put their hands on. They left with a brilliant idea: They’d create casualwear clothing driven by a sense of touch rather than sight and use the profits to fight blindness. That’s what they’ve done with Two Blind Brothers. Bradford and Bryan grew up in Charlottesville and went to the...
Sen. Bill Stanley, R-Franklin, joined the scramble to replace Rep. Tom Garrett, R-Buckingham, as the Republican nominee for the 5th District on Thursday night. Stanley enters the race as a possible front-runner, Larry J. Sabato, a political analyst and director of UVA’s Center for Politics, said on Twitter. “Could be a formidable nominee. Already vetted. Best-known candidate in contest yet.”
Far more emphasis is needed on prevention rather than preparation for violence, said Dewey G. Cornell, a forensic clinical psychologist at UVA. “Even an ordinary drill is likely to elicit distress from students as well as parents and staff,” Cornell said.
Robert Berry, a former middle school teacher who was twice named Teacher of the Year in Virginia, began his term at the end of the Council’s April 2018 Annual Meeting and Exposition in Washington, D.C. Berry currently teaches mathematics methods courses in the teacher education program at the University of Virginia.
The latest Reuters poll now has Republicans leading the Democrats. If the trend continues, Republicans could actually get to the 60 seats needed for a filibuster-proof Senate, enough to overcome any Democratic objections. The math tilts Republican. As explained by Larry Sabato of UVA’s Center for Politics, “Democrats are defending 26 of the 35 Senate seats being contested this year, including 10 seats in states that President Donald Trump won in the last presidential election. If one uses such seats as a proxy for the most vulnerable Democratic-held Senate seats – a reasonable metric – th...
In May, UVA held an LGBTQ Health Care Symposium to discuss the unique needs of those patients, and what hospitals and health care providers can do to provide the best care.
(Co-written by Brian Moriarty, professor at UVA’s Darden School of Business) Despite the global dominance of the Coke brand, its independently owned bottlers make the brand a local business for many communities. For the community of Kerala, India, criticism of the brand became a flashpoint both locally – and globally.
Our entire top three is different this year. Chicago is at No. 1, the University of Virginia School of Law is No. 2 and Duke Law is No. 3.
Efforts led by a UVA Medical Center doctor have led to a recommendation that more Americans should be screened for colorectal cancer. “In the last 10 years, we’ve gotten a variety of new evidence in colorectal screening,” said Dr. Andrew Wolf, an associate professor of medicine and a general internist at the Medical Center. “Colorectal cancer is really reaching into younger and younger populations.”
“The 10th is a district that Hillary Clinton carried, but has a Republican member of Congress in Barbara Comstock, so it’s a high-level target for Democrats,” said Geoff Skelley at UVA’s Center for Politics. “Comstock will, to some degree, probably be hanging on for dear life. She may be able to pull it out. But at the same time, we rate that race as a toss-up.”
Documentary filmmaker Leslie Cockburn won the Democratic nomination earlier this month for the House of Representatives race in Virginia’s 5th district. Almost immediately afterwards, the Republican Party of Virginia accused her of being a “virulent anti-Semite,” citing a book she had written years ago that was highly critical of U.S. policy toward Israel. “For a Democrat to win in this district, they have to win very large margins in the Charlottesville region,” Geoffrey Skelley of UVA’s Center for Politics said. “That’s really your only path. … [The accusation] puts her on the defensive, it ...
The new bargaining system, which resembles what is known as plea bargaining in the West, allows criminal suspects to negotiate deals with prosecutors in exchange for information on another criminal. Out of 330 DNA exoneration cases in the U.S., 22 percent involved informant testimony that was used as evidence to convict, according to Brandon L. Garrett, a professor at the UVA School of Law.
Some experts have worried about pre-50 risks of colon cancer in some racial and ethnic groups, and at least one specialty society for gastroenterologists has urged screening of black adults starting at age 45. Dr. Andrew Wolf, the lead author of the latest guidelines, said they considered and rejected that reasoning. "We should be able to do both," said Wolf, a UVA internist.
The Virginia Biosciences Health Research Corp., known as the Virginia Catalyst, announced a $500,000 grant award Wednesday for research on brain injury detection. The collaborative team includes UVA, the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, Carilion Medical Center and BRAINBox Solutions Inc., which has its headquarters in Richmond. BRAINBox Solutions will provide a $500,000 funding match.
Researchers have discovered two new vulnerabilities in voice-powered assistants, like Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant, that can allow attackers to steal sensitive information. In the first security analysis of the VPA ecosystem, researchers from Indiana University, the Chinese Academy of Science and the University of Virginia demonstrated how VPAs could be tricked by simple homophones - words that sound the same but have different meanings.
Benzocaine can lead to a rare but deadly condition called methemoglobinemia, where there is reduced oxygen delivery to the body. Dr. Nathan Charlton, a UVA medical toxicologist, believes that this is a true public safety concern. “While complications are rare, methemoglobinemia does occur and is not something that consumers are generally aware of or understand that they should look for signs and symptoms,” he said.
“We hear ‘Disney,’ and we think kids’ movies and things that everyone just kind of loves,” said Carmenita Higginbotham, a UVA professor who is one of the country’s leading Disney scholars. “And the company likes riding the middle, because that’s where the money is. But now they’re taking all these public hits – they’re going from the middle to riding the edges – and it’s just startling to watch.”
In a paper published in early May, researchers from UVA, Indiana University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences identified two techniques that could be used to manipulate users into sharing private data with malicious apps.